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My legacy isn't about what I did playing football, but how I use the opportunities that came from playing football.

The year after my father died, I started football training. He was the drive for me; he was my idol. I said to myself, 'I have to run just like him. I have to shoot just like him.'

I stopped playing football because I'd done as much as I could. I needed something which was going to excite me as much as football had excited me.

I had sacrificed my entire life to play football.

When it came to football there was a certain age where I realized that my future in football was being a grease spot on the side of some bigger player.

The only thing I ever wanted to be was a professional football player.

I always told my dad I'd play professional football.

I attribute my entire football career, as far as getting me started, getting me interested, keeping me that way was my father. He went to every game even though he was crippled and wasn't real healthy.

Where I come from, all of us wanted to be footballers. We played all the time; that's all we did at school or wherever until it went dark and you couldn't see the ball.

I also wanted to play with Peyton Manning because I thought he could teach me a lot, and he did.